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Info-Mac Digest             Sat, 19 Jun 99       Volume 16 : Issue 314

Today's Topics:

      (Q) Best Star Trek game for the Mac?
      [A] Upgrading my PowerBook 550c
      [Q] Calendar software
      [Q] drive mounting kits for Power Computing
      [Q] Trouble reading archives
      civilization: call to power
      G3 Powerbook S video out
      Help!  Desktop rebuilds (improperly) on each start up
      True Type Fonts
      Window Closing Problem

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Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 14:30:40 -0400
From: a brody <abrody@smart.net>
Subject: (Q) Best Star Trek game for the Mac?

Dear Digest readers,
Ages ago there was Star Trek the 25th Anniversary in 1993 from MacPlay.
Now that MacPlay has stopped making Mac games I was wondering if anyone
wants to pick up the baton by making another Star Trek adventure for the
Mac.    There was Star Trek the Rebel Universe for the PC which was pretty
good for an EGA graphics game.  You would collect treasures, visit 100s of
different solar systems, and use some treasures to solve other puzzles.   A
fictitious Star Wars game would be nice too.   Anybody know of any other
games that one can play around the Star Trek or Star Wars philosophy?
Something science fiction based?

Should be playable on a G3 processor.  These old games are so old the G3 is
too fast to play any of the battle scenes.   I have to be a computer to
fight them.  And also they should work fine on a Powerbook G3 with only 4
MB of video RAM.

Sincerely,
abrody@smart.net

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Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 20:42:45 -0400
From: Marlon Deason <marlond@earthlink.net>
Subject: [A] Upgrading my PowerBook 550c

I would strongly recommend against upgrading a 500 series PowerBook.
Unless the upgrade card can be had cheap (<$100) it would be much more
economical to save the money for a new G3 PowerBook. 

The only time I recommend a CPU upgrade is when you are completely
satisfied with all the other aspects of your machine. Are you happy with
the screen resolution, size and number of colors? Are you hampered by a
small hardrive? Do you wish you could add more RAM than the 'Book can
accept? All of these are symptoms of a greater ill. 

The lower end G3 PowerBooks are now less than $2000. A 500 series
PowerBook is going on six years old. I think you will get a lot more
milage out of your money and be set up well for Mac OS X if you go for
the new 'Book.

Marlon Deason
marlond@earthlink.net
http://home.earthlink.net/~marlond/macguerrillas/

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Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 18:26:27 +0100
From: Nigel Bevan <nigel@usability.serco.com>
Subject: [Q] Calendar software

We are looking for calendar software to run across Macs and PCs.

We currently use Now Up-to-Date on the Macs, and although we have a PC
version we never found out how to share the calendar information, and the
PC version is nolonger supported.

Chronos's Consultant would have been a good choice, but apparently there
are no plans to produce a version for the PC.

Does anyone know of any other solutions?

Suggestions appreciated.

Thanks .. Nigel

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Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 09:47:06 +1200
From: "Nigel Stanger" <nstanger@infoscience.otago.ac.nz>
Subject: [Q] drive mounting kits for Power Computing

I've been thinking of buying a CD-RW drive to put in my Power Computing 
PowerWave, but I remember the last time I bought an internal device I had a
devil of a time finding mounting rails for the thing. Basically I need these
rails that screw onto the side of the device, then the whole thing just
slides into the (5.25") bay and locks into place. Very nice, but seemingly
rather unusual, at least around here (every local PC shop I asked at looked
at me as if I was a lunatic).

I've had a dig around on the web, but all I've managed to find are mounting
kits for the likes of 8500s/9600/etc. I did find a couple of places with
"mounting rails", but with no pictures so I couldn't tell if they were the
right sort or not.

Does anyone know whether any of the Apple mounting kits are compatible with
a PowerWave, or point me in the direction of something that is? Thanks.

--
Nigel Stanger,               mailto:nstanger@infoscience.otago.ac.nz
Dunedin, NEW ZEALAND.                http://strange.otago.ac.nz:800/

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Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 20:13:43 -0700
From: Denny Davis <cat999@netmug.org>
Subject: [Q] Trouble reading archives

At 9:07 PM -0700 6/14/99, Chris Schram wittily wrote:

> On Mon, 14 Jun 1999, Ken Laskey <kenneth.j.laskey@cpmx.saic.com> wrote:
>
> [snippage]
>
> >Now to make matters worse, I haven't gotten Info-Mac issues 308 or any
> >thereafter.  So if you have any suggestions, please send these to me
> >directly while I check for subscription problems.
>
> Uh Oh! I also have not gotten issues 308+ in my email, though they are
> still showing up in comp.sys.mac.digest. Something must be broken.
>
> I said "Uh Oh" because I just sent in another subscription request. Now
> I'm concerned that I may soon be getting duplicate issues.
>
> Chris Schram schram@mail.coos.or.us http://www.coos.or.us/~schram/Chris/
>

This came in Info-Mac issue 312 [digest] to me, so check to see that you
are subscribed with info-mac listserver, I don't think you have to
subscribe to do that. I think that you won't get two duplicates unless you
use a different email address though. Also check your email app and email
service there could be a problem with one of them.

Curiosity killed the cat,
but satisfaction brought it back.

ICQ#5066430
Blessings, Denny
<mailto:cat999@netmug.org>

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Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 11:40:20 -0400
From: dead nancy <deadnancy@merkins.com>
Subject: civilization: call to power

hi, everybody.

so: i must play civilization: call to power. MUST. problem: mac version
release date is approximately xmas 99.

so my choices are:
1. buy a cheap pc to play this game.
2. install linux on one of my macs and play the beta.
3. run civ:ctp under emulation.

i'm hoping for no. 3. i have virtualpc 2 with windows 95 installed on a
greige 233mhz g3. seems like it should work, but activision's civ:ctp
hardware requirements keep repeating "100% windows-compatible."

anyone have firsthand accounts?

thanks.

dead nancy
http://www.merkins.com/

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Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 11:38:15 -0700
From: David L Hirschberg <daneel@stanford.edu>
Subject: G3 Powerbook S video out

Hi,

I am playing around  with a DVD drive in a powerbook G3/233.  I have 
so far been unable to send video out though the s video port.  I have 
plugged in the adaptor cable and run a video patch cord to the video 
in on my TV but the TV does not seem to be getting any signal.

Is the s video port always enabled or is there some place I have to 
turn it on?  I saw some Apple documentation on the Apple TIL site. 
The TV monitor control strip that they referred to does not load on 
my PB G3/233 or on a new 333mhz PB G3/333 that we have so I assume 
that it is not compatible.

Is there a  resolution or number of colors that I should be using? 
There is no setting for the S-video out port in the monitors and 
sound control panel.

Thanks, David
daneel@stanford.edu

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Date: 	Fri, 18 Jun 1999 10:21:56 -0400
From: refried@email.unc.edu (Howard M. Fried)
Subject: Help!  Desktop rebuilds (improperly) on each start up

Sys 8.1, PowerBook G3 (Wallstreet).  Every time I boot up, the desktop
gets rebuilt, on its own, no user intervention.  But it's rebuilt
incorrectly.  The icons all look OK (not generic) but files are no longer
associated with their applications; click on a file and nothing happens,
click on an alias and the "...application that created it could not be
found" error pops up.  Amazingly (to me anyway), when I start up with
extensions off (Shift key down), the desktop does not rebuild and files
are now associated with their applications.

I tried booting with only the Apple base extensions loaded, but to no
avail.  I used File Buddy to replace the desktop file, but File Buddy also
created a defective desktop, that is, files and aliases were still
unassociated with their applications.

This behavior began when I installed some shareware (an update of
something I already had) that dumped an extension into the Sys folder, so
restarting was necessary.  When I did restart, the desktop was rebuilt,
and that's been going on incessantly ever since, even when the new
extension removed.   Norton Antivirus does not report anything fishy and,
so far at least, everything else seems to work OK.

I'd be grateful if anyone could clear this up or suggest where to start
looking for a culprit.

TIA,
Howard Fried

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Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 20:39:40 -0700
From: Denny Davis <cat999@netmug.org>
Subject: True Type Fonts

At 12:23 AM -0700 6/16/99, Doug Hardie wittily wrote:

> There are a number of True Type fonts available on the web and appear to be
> configured for windows xx.  The files are usually zipped.  When opend up
> they have names of the form xxxx.ttf.  Is there a way to conver t these to
> Mac font suitcases?
>
> -- Doug

It is not hard if you use one of the utilities to convert Fonts. I use
TTConverter 1.5 and it works fine for me using 7.6.1. You might have to
search around for it. If needed I can send a copy.

I can't say if it works for 8.6 or not. :-}

Curiosity killed the cat,
but satisfaction brought it back.

ICQ#5066430
Blessings, Denny
<mailto:cat999@netmug.org>

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Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 00:33:18 -0700
From: Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org>
Subject: Window Closing Problem


>I am experiencing an interesting problem:  when a window is closed, it
>drops all the way to the back and sits for about 2 seconds before going
>away (OS 8.6).  This only started after upgrading to 8.6.  Mac Fixit
>reports:
>
Thanks to all who responded.  I received more good ideas than I could
handle.  I did fix the problem but don't know why.  What I did was to go
the Appearance Manager and select another appearance and let it take
effect.  Then I went back to yet another one.  However, the desktop picture
was gone.  So I added it back in and now windows close lightning fast.  I
did notice that the custom appearance I use before changed radically when I
selected another appearance.  I didn't go back to that one but used another
since I had to modify it anyway.  Perhaps something didn't convert properly
from 8.5 to 8.6 for the active appearance.

-- Doug

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